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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Naze in Japan


Earthquake location 26.9313S, 130.3094WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 178 km SSE of Naze, Japan (111 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 13/06/16 / 2016-06-13 04:27:04 / June 13, 2016 @ 4:27 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us2000641i. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000641i. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:27:04 / 1:27 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 130.3094 East, latitude 26.9313 North, depth = 10 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 178 km SSE of Naze, Japan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.3094° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 26.9313° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 178km SSE of Naze, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-13 04:27:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-13 04:48:44 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 432 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.821 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000641i Id of event.
Event Code 2000641i An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000641i, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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